In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.